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Updated: May 25, 2025
Baklaga, as I was told afterwards, was the name of a youthful, handsome, and excessively depraved groom; the prince loved him, made him presents of horses, went out hunting with him, spent whole nights with him.... Now you would not know this same prince, who was once a rake and a scapegrace.... In what good odour he is now; how straight- laced, how supercilious!
'Wai-ter, hey, a pipe! a tall gentleman, with regular features and a most majestic manner in fact, with all the external symptoms of a card-sharper muttered into his cravat. A waiter ran for a pipe, and when he came back, announced to his excellency that the groom Baklaga was asking for him. 'Ah! tell him to wait a minute and take him some vodka. 'Yes, sir.
We began bargaining on the spot in the street, when suddenly a splendidly-matched team of three posting- horses flew noisily round the corner and drew up sharply at the gates before Sitnikov's house. In the smart little sportsman's trap sat Prince N ; beside him Hlopakov. Baklaga was driving ... and how he drove! He could have driven them through an earring, the rascal!
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